Propaganda was first spread through ballads which were beguiling and whimsical poems or songs dating back well before the 17th century (Vannan 347). In 1936 Edward Filene helped establish the Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA) in the United States of America which attempted to educate Americans on how to recognize and analyze propaganda. The IPA was short lived; however, through the IPA we got a list of seven propaganda methods and this list became the standard for defining propaganda technics. This list includes; “Bandwagon: Pump up the value of ‘joining the party,’ …show more content…
If not for that fact, Nazi Germany would have never survived or accomplished as much as they did. They escalated from using propaganda as a machine to grew their party in the early 1920s, to sparking a rebellion in the mid-20s, to gaining the trust of the masses in the early 30s and lastly brainwashing and manipulating those same masses in the late-30s. Propaganda is more than a useful tool used to slam an opponent. Propaganda is a weapon capable of leading a nation to murder millions of innocent people. For those reason, Hitler and the Nazi party are the best example of how to effectively and efficiently use